<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/706eb992-3177-4d16-b7f4-c876cfd3e178/311B30F1-B0BA-4FA3-96C4-64BA64C2872B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html" href="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html" style="font-size: 11px;">peakenergy.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html">Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a relatively new science that studies the designs nature has evolved through millions of years of trial and error and then imitates these to solve problems in a sustainable way.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/peakenergy.blogspot.com/img/3CD893BE-B05B-4338-A0AE-EC43045A398E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html"><DIV>The biomimicry community has developed the following <A href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/23/1121/3861">design principles</A>:</DIV><BR />• Waste = Food<BR />• Self-assemble, from the ground up<BR />• Evolve solutions, don't plan them<BR />• Relentlessly adjust to the here & now<BR />• Cooperate and compete, not just one or the other<BR />• Diversify to fill every niche<BR />• Gather energy and materials efficiently<BR />• Optimize the system rather than maximizing components<BR />• The whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- design for swarm<BR />• Use minimal energy and materials<BR />• "Don't foul your nest"<BR />• Organize fractally<BR /><DIV>• Chemical reactions should be in water at normal temperature and pressure</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/05/biomimicry-are-humans-smarter-than-sea.html">"Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain." - Leonardo Da Vinci</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/311B30F1-B0BA-4FA3-96C4-64BA64C2872B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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